Scientists from NASA advised astronauts to avoid jerking off because they might unintentionally impregnate several women at once.
This warning came as many Quora and Reddit users asking if astronauts could still "look the other way" in environments like space shuttles, where there isn't often any closed-door privacy.
Several people even as what would happen to the cum if an astronaut touched it. Although the ship has tissues and wipes, they may decide to discard body fluids the same way they toss feces: by dumping them into space, where they will turn into ice crystals. Not exactly the big bang that an average person would have envisioned.
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According to some reports, there are stringent restrictions on "alone-time" when in zero gravity on board. According to scientists, even the smallest stray droplet may create chaos on board.
Additionally, self-pleasure is "prohibited" in zero-G environments due to concerns that any floating sperm would make female coworkers uncomfortable.
Conan O'Brien, a late-night TV personality, broached the difficult subject when speaking with a NASA engineer, asking him if he had ever transmitted pornographic material to the International Space Station.
"No, none of that," the scientist, identified only as Smythe, said per News.com.au.
"Three female astronauts can be impregnated by the same man on the same session - it finds its way," the scientist continued.
According to US astronomer Dr. John Millis, sex and self-pleasure in space are logistical nightmares with issues including floating fluids and diminishing manhoods.
He likened having sex in space to "skydiving," but added that it was "not impossible."
This is probably what the cosmonauts had in mind when the Kremlin's sperm scientists came calling.
In 2019, Russian scientist Dr. Irina Ogneva requested sperm samples from male cosmonauts.
"There are no cosmonauts who want to," she revealed in the same News.com.au report.
Experts' Stand Over 'No Jerking Off' Rule
As it prepares for the next Moon and Mars expeditions, NASA is getting ready to examine how sex in space may function.
Such study is "essential to the success of deep space missions and building off-world settlements," according to academics from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.
However, despite persistent rumors of astronauts having sex in space, NASA and the ISS routinely avoid all queries. Although other people know that orbital insertions may be impossible to look through, what about jerking off in space?
Marjorie Jenkins, a NASA advisor and expert on sex and gender health, stated in a paper titled "Effects of Sex and Gender on Adaptations to Space: Reproductive Health," that men must ejaculate regularly to reduce the risk of bacteria accumulating in their prostates. Jerking off is often believed to be a great way to relieve tension and anxiety. So it seems logical that someone on a demanding space mission would seek out some escape.
Early NASA research noted that instead of circulating in the lower part of your body, the gravity shift causes blood flow to alter or reverse its direction and rise upwards toward the head and chest. This implies that the universe may be a bone-killer. However, other astronauts have provided information on the subject to argue the opposite.
Astronaut Michael Mullane said in an interview with Men's Health Magazine in 2014 that on one of his space flights, he occasionally carried "a boner that [he] could have drilled through kryptonite."
It's possible to presume that a woman won't have a hard time identifying herself, even though there hasn't been a case of a woman speaking up about getting turned on in space.
However, any ambitions for self-pleasure may be hampered by the weightlessness of a zero-gravity environment, along with the motion sickness, dizziness, and numbness of body parts like limbs that many astronauts initially suffer.
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